Zenith SA is a Swiss luxury watchmaker. The company was started in 1865 by Georges Favre-Jacot in Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel and is one of the oldest continuously operating watchmakers.
Since the early 1900s, Zenith has been awarded more than fifteen hundred top observatory awards for chronometry, an incredible feat for a manufacture that has only been partially discovered by collectors.
20th-century Zenith is largely associated with the El-Primero movement, the mechanism that made its way into many Zenith and Movado watches throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. By '88, Rolex, having no automatic chronograph of their own, began using the El-Primero in their Daytona line in lieu of the Valjouz 72 manual winding unit.
This lovely Zenith Calibre 126 ,given its oversize size, looks very current on the wrist, while not losing the charm and elegance typical of vintage